Paramatma

Arhata means one who has arrived. Man is in a constant wandering. He is always departing from one point for another, but he is never arriving anywhere. It is much ado about nothing. The mind goes in circles, and when you move in a circle you cannot arrive. You can go on moving forever, for eternity. And unless one arrives at a point of contentment, unless one arrives at a state where all desires disappear, life remains unfulfilled and life remains one of agony. Once you feel that you are at home, that now there is nowhere to go, now there is no need to go, now there is no desire -- that feeling of at-homeness, relaxation with the moment, utterly in tune with it, that is arhata, a state of desirelessness. No desire can ever be fulfilled because each desire brings many more desires in its wake.

Surrender the ego -- it is only a false notion. I ask my sannyasins to give to me that which you don't have, so that I can give you that which you already have. Give your ego to me so that you can have the whole. 'Why remain tethered to a small thing? This whole universe is an organic unity. That is the meaning of Sampurna and that has to be dis-covered. Unless you discover it life is meaningless and a meaningless misery -- on one hand meaningless, on the other hand miserable. It is just an exercise in utter futility. But it all depends on you -- you can drop the ego in a single moment of understanding, just as one drops one's clothes -- because it is a false idea. Clothes are far more real.

Anand means bliss and citta means mind -- bliss mind. In English you don't have many words for the mind but in Sanskrit we have many words for the mind to denote different qualities. The only way to translate citta is. mind with a capital 'M'. It is not ordinary mind, it is the cosmic Mind. Mind with a lower case 'm' is the ordinary mind; Mind with a capital 'M' is the cosmic Mind. It is neither yours nor mine, it is everybody's Mind: not only of human beings but of trees, animals, birds, and rocks and stars. There is a Mind that supports all, there is a Mind that is the very substance of the whole of existence. This existence is made of citta stuff, mind stuff.

Dhyana means meditation, yogesh means god of the yoga: god of the yoga of meditation. Meditation is the ultimate yoga. All that is known in the name of yoga is just introductory. Those body postures, asanas, breathing techniques, they are just to prepare the body. But many get lost in that; they think 'This is all', and their whole life is simply wasted in a kind of gymnastics. Good in itself, nothing wrong in it -- health-giving, vitality-giving, prolongs the life -- but ultimately it is meaningless. Whether you live seventy years or eighty years does not matter, if you lived in a nonsense way. It doesn't matter at all whether you were healthy or ill. In the ultimate sense only one thing matters: whether you were able to know yourself or not; everything else is irrelevant.